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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in DeSoto, TX
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in DeSoto, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around DeSoto. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is DeSoto, TX safe?
DeSoto, Texas has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 59 out of 100, grade C, above the Texas statewide score of 53. An estimated 46% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 45% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.
- Safety Score
- 59 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 46%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 21%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 33
How DeSoto compares
DeSoto scores 6 points above the Texas statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
DeSoto lies in Dallas County, which has a county Safety Score of 33, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside DeSoto.
Neighborhoods inside DeSoto
33 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside DeSoto, 31 of them mostly inside it. Among those 31, the lowest scores 3, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 18 to 92.
ZIP codes where DeSoto residents live
An estimated 99% of DeSoto's residents live in ZIP 75115 (Safety Score 62, grade B). An estimated 1% of that ZIP's residents live outside DeSoto, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 75115 profile.
Closest cities in Texas
- Glenn Heights Safety Score 61 · grade B · 3.0 miles
- Lancaster Safety Score 54 · grade C · 4.5 miles
- Duncanville Safety Score 67 · grade B · 4.6 miles
- Cedar Hill Safety Score 65 · grade B · 4.7 miles
- Red Oak Safety Score 56 · grade C · 6.0 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About DeSoto
DeSoto has an estimated 56,711 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 21.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 33 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.
How this page is built
ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.
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